“Our narrator here is Ólafur Thorlacius, a physician at Djúpivogur. “In 1627, when the ‘Turks’ raided in the east and south, they also came to the Berufjörður coast and did great damage there. When they had swept everything into their grasp, they set off with nine captives taken in Berunes parish. “They went the whole length of Krossdalur, which is quite a long way. They chose that route because their ship, black as coal, lay at Langatangabólið on the south side of Breiðdalsvík. When they reached the head of the valley under Fagradalsskarð, where the Krossá has its source, a thick fog came down over them. “Then they lost their way and became very uneasy. They decided to bind the captives and leave them there bound. Among the captives was a boy three or four years old. Him they did not bind—likely thinking it unnecessary. The boy’s mother was among the captives, and before she was taken from home she had slipped a knife to her son and told him to keep it in his shoe. When the raiders had, for a while, vanished into the fog, the boy tried to cut the bonds from his mother. He managed it. She then cut the bonds from the others, and so they all escaped the peril they were in. Tradition has it that this boy was named Bessi and that he later became a ‘kynsæll’ man in the East—i.e., a man with many descendants.” (Stefán Jónsson, 1964:14)